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Desktop Modules

Pooled Desktops

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Load Balancer

Citrix StoreFront Citrix StoreFront

Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenDesktop
Controller Controller

Services Pod

Hosted Virtual Desktops

Up to 1200 Desktops

8 Host Cluster 8 Host Cluster

Nutanix PRISM
AHV
AHV

AHV
AHV
AHV

AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV

AHV

iSCSI Datastore
Nutanix DFS (NDFS)

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User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer
Pooled Desktop Catalog

HA
Delivery Group
HTTP Pair
Office Workers
Windows 7 VM Virtual Delivery vCPU: 2
NetScaler ADC Agent RAM: 1.5

Delivery Group
Task Workers
3 Servers 300 PCs

Load Resource Hosts

Balancer Physical, Virtual

Sync

StoreFront

Control Layer
Sync

Delivery Controller SQL Database

1 Servers 23 VMs

Director Studio License Server Active Directory Access & Control Hosts
Physical, Virtual
 Control Pod
Load Balancer

Citrix StoreFront Citrix StoreFront

Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenDesktop
Controller Controller

Services Pod

Hosted Virtual Desktops

Up to 1200 Desktops

8 Host Cluster 8 Host Cluster

Nutanix PRISM
AHV
AHV

AHV
AHV
AHV

AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV
AHV

AHV

iSCSI Datastore
Nutanix DFS (NDFS)

Nutanix Block Nutanix Block Nutanix Block Nutanix Block

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READ/WRITE IO Desktop 1..N Master VM
Desktop 1..N
OS
OS OS

10 GbE
AHV Host AHV Host

Read PCIe SATA SATA Read PCIe SATA SATA

Cache SSD SSD HDD Cache SSD SSD HDD
ILM
Nutanix DFS (NDFS) ILM
Nutanix CVM Nutanix CVM
Node N Node 1

READ IO
READ/WRITE IO Desktop 1..N Master VM
Desktop 1..N
OS
OS OS
10 GbE

ESXi Host ESXi Host

Read PCIe SATA SATA Read PCIe SATA SATA

Cache SSD SSD HDD Cache SSD SSD HDD
ILM ILM
Nutanix CVM Nutanix CVM
Node N Node 1
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SATA SSD

Node
Nutanix
SATA HDD

PCIe SSD
Node SATA SSD
Nutanix

SATA HDD

PCIe SSD
Nutanix Block

SATA SSD
Node
Nutanix

SATA HDD

PCIe SSD
SATA SSD
Container 1 -

Node
Nutanix
CTR-RF2-VM-01

SATA HDD
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PCIe SSD
Storage Pool SP01

SATA SSD
Node
Nutanix

SATA HDD
Container N

PCIe SSD
SATA SSD
Node
Nutanix

SATA HDD

PCIe SSD
Nutanix Block

SATA SSD
Node
Nutanix

SATA HDD

PCIe SSD
SATA SSD
Node
Nutanix

SATA HDD
 Citrix XenDesktop Services

StoreFront XenDeskto Provisioni

NetScaler p ng
Controller Services
s Desktops
Infrastructure Services LoginVSI Test Environment

vCenter DFS Server Sessions

Active vCOps
Directory LoginVSI Launcher(s)
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 Restart/turn on desktops

Restart/start Login VSI Launcher(s)

Log in to VSI Management Console

Set test parameters and number of sessions

Start test

Wait for test execution to finish

Analyze results (Login VSI)

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